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“They’re cash-flow machines,” analyst Ray Neidl, of Calyon Securities, told The Associated Press about regional airlines, in a Tuesday story. Although not all regionals are doing well, Mesa doubled its profit over the last fiscal year, Skywest profits are up 41 percent and Republic is up by 63 percent. Many of the regional carriers operate […]

Have an idea to promote aviation safety, education, or GA airports? The Wolf Aviation Fund wants to hear about it, and they have small-scale grants available to help support your endeavor. The process is fairly informal, and the deadline is Dec. 15. Proposals are welcome from individuals and nonprofit groups. More than 100 projects have […]

A brand-new restricted area, with a radius of one nautical mile, has been established above Vice President Dick Cheney’s new home on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland, about 30 miles east of Washington. The airspace, designated as of Nov. 22, is in force at all times, whether or not the vice president is in residence. […]

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AVmail: December 5, 2005Reader mail this week about flight service, Airbus ADs, controller pay negotiations and more.

COLUMNS The Pilot’s Lounge #94: It’s The Medium, ManfredThere’s a new aviation myth running around the Internet. It involves a conveyer-belt runway and misuse of aerodynamics and … well, it’s better if AVweb’s Rick Durden explains it all himself in The Pilot’s Lounge.

Military aviation history isn’t always about planes and pilots. Sometimes it’s soaked into a patch of red paisley carpet or etched into a slab of wood. For pilots and crew who headed into harm’s way in the Western Pacific, the watering hole known as The Cubi Bar at Cubi Point Naval Air Station in the […]

Generally, if it looks like a duck and sounds like a duck … well, you know the rest. But the devil’s in the details and as much as this engine looks (and presumably sounds) like a Lycoming 360, Superior Air Parts says its Vantage engine is “the newest FAA certified 180-horsepower piston engine.” Last week, […]

An Indian textiles tycoon is claiming to have established a new altitude record for hot air balloons. Vijaypat Singhania says he flew the specially designed balloon to 21,300 meters (70,000 feet) in a five-hour flight that covered about 150 miles on Saturday. “When I broke the record, I was euphoric. I screamed quite loudly,” Singhania […]